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thanks for letting me in on the history of this planet, knowing this makes the appreciation for the work done here greater. The speed that the information reaches this place is great for a rabid Pats fan like myself. although I am not as articulate as others and could possible have the worst typing skills along the Eastern Coast of the United States I enjoy the way the "non- football" issues are played out.

thanks my spelling is a direct result of my not knowing how to type or spell

Originally posted by mikiemo83 although I am not as articulate as others and could possible have the worse typing skills along the Eastern Coast of the United States

Ummm, that would be "worst typing skills"

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Thank you bid.

I came from a little different place then the original members here. I was a lurker on Mouth Off, then KFFL and also Rivals before Freak introduced me to here.

As bid said, I broke my chops in the GP thread. But this board was always where I wanted to be but just didn't know it.

I was surprised at how much I cared about this site when it went down last spring just before all of the troubles. The site was hosted on a server in Russia or something and was down for a good 3 weeks. It was then that I realized I was homeless and bought and set up patriotsplanet.net with a temporary board. Not long after, Austin got things squared away with the server and we were back up.

That time last year was crazy. I remember that Friday well. Pook was on vacation. Hawg was gone for the day, and things melted. I sent an urgent PM to the guys at Chiefsplanet, got on the phone with them and one of the first things I did as an Admin was press the ban button. I stayed up most of the night that first night and foiled several more attempts. We quickly got control, and things have been looking up since then. We then had general elections for new mods, adding Bid and Anni. Poor Pookie when he got back from vacation found 3 new mods.

Even though Alice wasn't here, I felt with all of the old-timers help, that I understood the style of the board. Back in the early 90s, I ran a dial-up BBS, and running this place is not a lot different. Patriots Planet has really filled that void for me.

Anni designed the beautiful home page that we have now, and I have gained a lot of technical knowledge that I did not have a year ago. We have a great group of mods, and we have attracted and kept a great core group of posters. Some of you that have registered within the last year, I almost could not imagine the Planet without you now.

I am thankful that Alice started this place, and glad that she is back to contribute again. Things just got a little more fun.

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One more thing for those who might not know.

Our references to the "25" mods come from a user who at that time thought we had too many moderators and made a sarcastic comment about 25 moderators not being enough.

The coverage we have is pretty good with the 5 of us, and really we are all mainly just members with some extra buttons. A board like this really belongs to its members, that is why most major decisions are put up to a vote.

Originally posted by Undertaker #59 One more thing for those who might not know.

Our references to the "25" mods come from a user who at that time thought we had too many moderators and made a sarcastic comment about 25 moderators not being enough.

The coverage we have is pretty good with the 5 of us, and really we are all mainly just members with some extra buttons. A board like this really belongs to its members, that is why most major decisions are put up to a vote.

Damn you UT. You gave away the secret

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Hi, long time lurker... first time caller... no, wait. That's not quite right.

T-ShirtDynasty humbly feels this historic thread should be considered for perma-sticky status. With a better understanding of the storied background, the key players, and birth of The Planet... it's much easier to grasp the overall "personality" of this interesting community for us newbs.

Nice work Hawg and Bid ....... as much as you Mods say it's the members that make the Planet ....... The Planet would not exist without all the hard work from the Mods.

Thanks to all once again [/asskissing]

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Originally posted by T-ShirtDynasty Hi, long time lurker... first time caller... no, wait. That's not quite right.

T-ShirtDynasty humbly feels this historic thread should be considered for perma-sticky status. With a better understanding of the storied background, the key players, and birth of The Planet... it's much easier to grasp the overall "personality" of this interesting community for us newbs.

Such a rich history. You guys have a right to be proud.

Welcome aboard, T-shirt. Interesting little pet you have on your shoulder. Does he bite? Don't forget to check out the famous girlie pic thread (if you're into that kind of thing).

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Originally posted by T-ShirtDynasty Hi, long time lurker... first time caller... no, wait. That's not quite right.

T-ShirtDynasty humbly feels this historic thread should be considered for perma-sticky status. With a better understanding of the storied background, the key players, and birth of The Planet... it's much easier to grasp the overall "personality" of this interesting community for us newbs.

Such a rich history. You guys have a right to be proud.

Welcome to the Planet man! Great banner by the way

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Tom Brady @the Pats Rally:
we got 3 rings in 4 years...and I have a lot more fingers!

Annihilus is going to break from 3rd person for one post. He hopes nobody minds too much. ;)

Ahhh...a history of the Planet Thread. I like it. The cool thing about this thread is that it is really a tribute to Alice.....and even though a lot of the stuff I'm going to write doesn't have anything to do with her directly, it wouldn't be written at all if she hadn't made this site outta the frikkin' air. It's a trickle down she should be proud of. This place is fun, and it's pretty much all her fault.

The other guys have pretty much said everything that needs to be said. Out of the gang that has already spoken, I'm definately the newcomer - but like UT said: this board was always where I wanted to be but just didn't know it.

Before I got here I had never made one post on an Internet message board of any kind. Up until two weeks ago I had never been in an Internet chatroom of anykind (Undertaker had to go and get us one of those so I didn't have much of a choice - thanks bro ;) ). Since then I think I've posted a total of about 15 times on KFFL and maybe 100 on Patriots.com's site when the Planet went kerflooey for that month last year. It always seems weird to post elsewhere.

I think I can speak for everyone when I say this place is great for Pats fans to hang out. Not to be melodramatic, but in the 20+ years of beeing a Patriots fan I don't remember much of a happier time than the day/week that I found this place (other than the SB victiories maybe). Being an out of state Pats fan that has lived in MT, KY, SD & MN, I hadn't even met another Pats fan until I came here.

Imagine what it was like for me to actually have a conversation with someone that knew the name of the Patriots running back or wide receivers. It was friggin' shocking. And Awesome. From my first post (in the Karma thread) I was hooked. The members were funny as hell and some of them tended to be a bit more verbose than on other boards. Hell, some of them even wrote stories about time travel and sh!t.

Since then, this place has added tons of other unique members each with their own twisted slant on life and the Patriots. It never ends. You gotta love it.

So thanks Alice. You da bomb.

The rest of ya kick ass too.
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we got 3 rings in 4 years...and I have a lot more fingers!

Only if there are more than two people on the East Coast. But you didn't allow for the possibility that he meant to use the comparative instead of the superlative, now did you? Witnessing Americans correct one another on grammar is like watching Pele instructing Maradona about the subtleties of an influence block. ;)

BTW, I hereby move that in honor of our chosen team's heavily Gaelic homeland, we simply refer to "that situation" as "The Troubles." Capitalised, of course.

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